Craig Jones has introduced plans to carry a seminar to profit ADCC rivals who will obtain no prize cash.
In current weeks, high no-gi competitor Craig Jones has been a vocal critic of the ADCC’s low prize cash. He’s now doing one thing about it.
Over the weekend, the Australian fan-favorite introduced plans to carry a seminar and provides all proceeds to ADCC rivals who lose within the event’s first day. These athletes would in any other case not obtain any prize cash.
Jones posted concerning the seminar on Instagram.
As he explains within the video above, he goals to carry the seminar on the Thursday previous to the 2024 ADCC World Championships, slated to go down in Las Vegas on August 17-18.
Probably the most fashionable athletes within the sport, Jones can demand a comparatively excessive value for a seminar and nonetheless anticipate a sell-out.
A two-time ADCC silver medalist, Jones had secured an invitation to the 2024 ADCC World Championships however has turned down that invite, citing the ADCC’s inadequate prize cash.
Jones kicked off the dialogue concerning the ADCC prize cash – which hasn’t modified in over twenty years – a number of weeks in the past. He asserts that, as essentially the most prestigious occasion in submission grappling, the ADCC ought to pay way more than the present $10,000 for male division winners and $6,000 for feminine division winners.
Maybe unsurprisingly, these claims drew the eye of multiple-time ADCC champion Gordon Ryan, who came to the defense of the ADCC and its prize cash.
Jones is slated to next compete on April 20 in Dubai at Pit Submission Sequence 4, the place he’ll tackle UFC contender Rinat Fakhretdinov.
